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3	->''"I'm not at all interested in who-done-its. If you conceal a character's guilt, you imply that his guilt is the most important thing about him. I want the audience to know who the murderer is, so that we can consider his personality."''
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5	Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (June 24, 1930 -- September 12, 2010) was a French film critic and director. He was a member of the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave and was known for his work in the thriller genre.
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7	Although Chabrol was from a family of pharmacists, he developed a passion for cinema at a young age, running a film club out of a barn between the ages of 12 and 14. He eventually moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. While there, met Creator/FrancoisTruffaut, Creator/JeanLucGodard, Creator/EricRohmer, and Creator/JacquesRivette who he would work alongside on the influential journal ''Cahiers du Cinéma''. As a film critic he primarily wrote about genre films, co-authoring the first book on Creator/AlfredHitchcock with Rohmer. During this time, he also briefly worked as a publicity man for the French offices of 20th Century Fox. He was fired for being the worst they ever had, only to be replaced by Godard, who was even worse.
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9	He would be one of the first of the ''Cahiers'' critics to go into film-making, his ''Le Beau Serge'' and ''Les Cousins'' being the first two features of the French New Wave. His films were primarily thrillers that functioned as critiques of the bourgeoisie. One of Chabrol's most notable trademarks was his habit of revealing the identity of the killer early in the film, which he believed allowed for greater psychological depth. Although he was very inconsistent in quality (he once made a list of the three worst films of all time that included his own, ''The Twist''), some of his films are acknowledged as masterpieces of French cinema.
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11	In 1964 he married Creator/StephaneAudran and they became a CreatorCouple as he shot her in numerous films. Though she already played both in ''Film/LesCousins'' and ''Film/LesBonnesFemmes''.
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13	!!Selected filmography
14	[[index]]
15	* ''Film/LeBeauSerge'' (1958)
16	* ''Film/LesCousins'' (1959)
17	* ''Film/LesBonnesFemmes'' (1960)
18	* ''Les Biches'' (1968)
19	* ''Film/LeBoucher'' (1970)
20	* ''Film/TheNovices'' (1970; uncredited)
21	* ''Film/JusteAvantLaNuit'' (1971)
22	* ''Film/InspecteurLavardin'' (1986)
23	* ''The Cry of the Owl'' (1987)
24	* ''Story of Women'' (1988)
25	* ''Betty'' (1992)
26	* ''Film/{{Torment\|1994}}'' (1994)
27	* ''Film/LaCeremonie'' (1995)
28	* ''[[Film/TheSwindle1997 The Swindle]]'' (1997)
29	* ''Film/MerciPourLeChocolat'' (2000)
30	[[/index]]
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32	!!Tropes & Trivia in his works:
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34	* ProductionPosse:
35	** He made a lot of films with his wife Creator/StephaneAudran in main roles.
36	** He also cast Creator/SandrineBonnaire a couple times.

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